Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fuel costs for the Faculty were lower than expected, since the budget forecast was prepared early in the Gulf War, according to Knowles...
...darkest fears of all those who live in the flight paths of airports were realized on the quiet evening of Oct. 4, when an El Al 747-200F cargo crashed into a 10-story low-income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency...
...biggest problem will be proliferation, not only of nuclear fuel and arms but also of poison gases, biological toxins and other awful things no one has yet dreamed up. If tin-pot dictators and drug cartels get hold of the technology, they will become increasingly troublesome. Even a cheap, radio- controlled model airplane can do a lot of damage if, say, it is carrying a genetically engineered anthrax spore...
...feeble but inexorable pressure of sunlight or traveling on ion drives that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...
Meanwhile, under the pretext of complying with international sanctions against Serbia, Greece is blockading fuel shipments to Macedonia. As a result, factories there have had to shut down; crops are rotting in the fields; ambulances are sitting useless in hospital parking lots. "It's murder without bullets," says Miljovski...